Siddhis - gift of God’s grace or consequence of own efforts?

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> >shriadishakti , " francesyfp "

> > <francesyfp> wrote:

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> > reading your website i came across something in regards to all

> > the heavenly hosts and deities meditating the exact same way

> > sahaja yogi's meditate.

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shriadishakti , jagbir singh

<adishakti_org> wrote:

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> For more than a decade Shri Lalita Devi has revealed that She is

> the Supreme Goddess in the Sahasrara, and that Shri Mataji Nirmala

> Devi is Her incarnation on Earth. The siddhis that enable my three

> children to visit Her in the Sahasrara were initiated by Her. None

> of my children desired anything. How can mere children mediate on

> Shri Mataji and are met by Her in their Sahasraras? How did

> three-year-old Lalita or five-year-old Arwinder acquire such

> powers? Whatever they told me about the Shakti in the Sahasrara is

> the basis of www.adishakti.org. Without these siddhis there is

> absolutely no way to provide evidence that Shri Mataji Nirmala

> Devi is the incarnation of the Great Goddess.

>

 

 

" Mystics hold first that God is not to be located in any

particular place, church or temple but that His spirit is everywhere

present in Nature and that Nature everywhere abides in it. The

orthodox notion that God is a particular Person among many persons,

only much more powerful yet still saddled with likes and dislikes,

anger and jealousy, is rejected as childish. Pantheism is therefore

the initial note to be sounded. Right thought hallows a place or

makes it profane, and real sacredness dwells within the mind alone.

 

Next they hold that as a corollary from the first tenet, God abides

inside the heart of every man as the sun abides in all its myriad

rays. He is not merely a physical body alone, as materialists

believe, nor a body plus a ghost-like soul which emanates from it

after death, as religionists believe, but he is here and now divine

in the very flesh. The heavenly kingdom must be found whilst we are

yet still alive, or not at all. It is not a prize which is bestowed

on us in the nebulous courts of death.

 

The practical consequence of this doctrine is embodied in the third

tenet of the mystics, which asserts that it is perfectly possible

for any man, who will submit to the prerequisite ascetic discipline,

to enter into direct communion by contemplation and meditation with

the spirit of God without the use of any priest or prelate as an

intermediary and without the formal utterance of verbal prayer. This

renders it quite unnecessary to lift upturned palms in suppliant

adjuration of a higher Being. Silent aspiration thus replaces

mechanical recitation.

 

The fourth tenet is as obnoxious to official religion as the last

for it declares that stories, events, incidents and sayings, which

in their totality constitute a holy scripture, are merely a mixture

of imagined allegories and actual happenings, a literary concoction

whereby mystical truths are cleverly conveyed through the medium of

symbolic myth, legendary personification and true historic fact;

that the twentieth century indeed could quite justifiably write its

new Bibles, its new Qurans, its new Vedas afresh if it wished, for

the divine afflatus may descend again at any hour.

 

Mystics hold, fifthly, that their practices ultimately lead to the

development of supernormal faculties and extraordinary mental powers

or even strange physical ones, either as the gift of God's grace

or as the consequence of their own efforts. "

 

Paul Brunton, The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga,

E. P. Dutton & Co., 1966, p. 77